Texas Instruments' Tom Flanagan has waited a decade for voice-over-IP (VoIP) technology to live up to its early hype. "I can't tell you how many times I predicted 'this is the year,' " says Flanagan, director of technical strategy for TI's VoIP group. This, however, may finally be the year that the technology-which allows voice to be sent as data packets over the Internet or other IP-based networks-gains enough momentum to develop into a major market. Ajit Pendse, CEO of VoIP software vendor Trinity Convergence, says VoIP is taking off because there is now a critical mass of broadband Internet subscribers. "The enabling technology is broadband," he says.
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机译：德州仪器（TI）的汤姆·弗拉纳根（Tom Flanagan）等待十年的IP语音（VoIP）技术得以实现其早期宣传。 TI VoIP组技术战略总监Flanagan说：“我无法告诉您我预测'今年是多少次'。”但是，今年最终可能是该技术的发展势头，该技术允许语音通过Internet或其他基于IP的网络作为数据包发送，从而获得了足够的发展动力，从而发展成为一个主要市场。 VoIP软件供应商Trinity Convergence的首席执行官Ajit Pendse说，VoIP之所以起飞，是因为现在有大量的宽带Internet用户。他说：“支持技术是宽带。”
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